PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 62 81
Rank change year-on-year +32 +19 -1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 95 34 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 9.28% 2.89% 2.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.54% 6.77% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 19 18 24
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,335
25th Percentile £37,000 £51,500 £47,424
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% +3.85% +12.44%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,583 £78,459
90th Percentile - £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.60%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 441 502 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.07% 42.61% 48.19%
Number of salaries quoted 171 259 396
10th Percentile £26,250 £39,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £32,029 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% -11.54% +4.84%
75th Percentile £78,770 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £88,750 £89,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year - -7.60% +3.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) CICS
3 1 (1.05%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Workday HCM
2 4 (4.21%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 77 (81.05%) Azure
2 37 (38.95%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (37.89%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (31.58%) Entra ID
5 27 (28.42%) dbt
5 27 (28.42%) Snowflake
6 19 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 16 (16.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (10.53%) GitHub
9 8 (8.42%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (8.42%) Boomi
9 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (8.42%) Mimecast
9 8 (8.42%) SaaS
10 6 (6.32%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.21%) AWS
11 4 (4.21%) Azure App Service
11 4 (4.21%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.42%) Firewall
1 8 (8.42%) Telnet
2 4 (4.21%) BGP
2 4 (4.21%) DNS
2 4 (4.21%) LAN
2 4 (4.21%) MPLS
2 4 (4.21%) VPN
2 4 (4.21%) WAN
2 4 (4.21%) Wireless
3 3 (3.16%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.05%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.05%) DB2
Development Applications
1 20 (21.05%) JIRA
2 6 (6.32%) Jenkins
General
1 80 (84.21%) Finance
2 13 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.63%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.42%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 31 (32.63%) Senior
2 23 (24.21%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (10.53%) Applications Engineer
4 8 (8.42%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 8 (8.42%) Platform Specialist
5 6 (6.32%) 3rd Line Support
5 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Applications Support
6 4 (4.21%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Data Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Lead
7 3 (3.16%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.58%) GraphQL
1 11 (11.58%) OAuth
1 11 (11.58%) OpenAPI
1 11 (11.58%) Swagger
2 8 (8.42%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (8.42%) REST
2 8 (8.42%) SAML
2 8 (8.42%) SOAP
2 8 (8.42%) Web Services
2 8 (8.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (41.05%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.47%) Security Posture
3 8 (8.42%) Equities
3 8 (8.42%) Fixed Income
4 5 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.21%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.11%) Robotics
6 2 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.05%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 30 (31.58%) Windows
2 15 (15.79%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.21%) VMS
4 3 (3.16%) Linux
5 2 (2.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (78.95%) Asset Management
2 73 (76.84%) Coaching
3 61 (64.21%) Agile
4 54 (56.84%) DevOps
5 47 (49.47%) Roadmaps
6 43 (45.26%) ITIL
7 41 (43.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (37.89%) CI/CD
9 34 (35.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (31.58%) AI
11 28 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (27.37%) Analytics
12 26 (27.37%) FinOps
12 26 (27.37%) Machine Learning
12 26 (27.37%) Technology Roadmap
13 25 (26.32%) Mentoring
14 18 (18.95%) Information Security
15 12 (12.63%) Data Modelling
15 12 (12.63%) Platform Engineering
15 12 (12.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 54 (56.84%) Python
2 39 (41.05%) SQL
3 24 (25.26%) Bash
4 11 (11.58%) C#
5 8 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.21%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (6.32%) CISSP
1 6 (6.32%) CREST Certified
1 6 (6.32%) SANS
2 3 (3.16%) Degree
3 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.11%) CCNA
3 2 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.05%) CEH
4 1 (1.05%) GIAC
4 1 (1.05%) GREM
4 1 (1.05%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.95%) Accessibility
2 10 (10.53%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (18.95%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (14.74%) Active Directory
3 10 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.21%) Docker
5 1 (1.05%) RACF
Systems Management
1 50 (52.63%) Terraform
2 20 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (8.42%) SCCM
3 8 (8.42%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (7.37%) Ansible
5 5 (5.26%) Grafana
6 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
6 4 (4.21%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.05%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.05%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (1.05%) QRadar
Vendors
1 53 (55.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.74%) ServiceNow
3 8 (8.42%) Charles River
3 8 (8.42%) Cisco
3 8 (8.42%) MuleSoft
3 8 (8.42%) Workday
4 6 (6.32%) Splunk
5 5 (5.26%) IBM
6 4 (4.21%) Ab Initio
6 4 (4.21%) F5
6 4 (4.21%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.21%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.05%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.05%) Proofpoint